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• I would rather make my name than inherit it. THACKERAY
• It's not that you and I are so clever, but that the others are such fools.
• I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
• I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth
  But like of each thing that in season grows. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act i, Sc....
• So we grew together, like to a double cherry, seeming parted but yet a union in partition, two lovely berries moulded on one stem
  so, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act iii, Sc....
• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
  -- Quintilian (42-118 AD) -- Institutiones Oratoriae, i, x, 7, 21...
• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act i, Sc. 1...